Whipping device.



S. KVAM.

WHIPPING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED MAILIO, 191s.

Patented Aug. 25, 191 i neg HE NORRIS PETERS CD4. PHOTO-LITHO., P VASHINu I'ON, D. CI

,, UNITED STATES PATENT:

F IGE.

SIG-VART KVAM, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOR OF. ONE-HALF TO 3'. E. HAWKINSON, OF PARKERS PRAIRIE, MINNESOTA.

WHIPPING DEVICE.

' Patented Aug. 25, 1914.

Application filed March 10; 1913. Serial No. 753,206.

holder which may be attached to the tongue Z or other part of a vehicle and which prof vides means for holding the whip, the oper ation of the device causing the. whip to strike the horse either to right or to left of a team or pair.

The device is of particular use in those cases in which a lead team or horse is employed, as where four horses are driven in line. In such case it is somewhat difficult toreach the front team with a whip unless a very long whip is employed, and, as is well-knowm-unless it is possible to reach the horses ahead with a whip they are very likely to hang back and loaf and permit the rear team to do most or all of the work.

The full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof and are particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, illustrating the application of my invention in one form,

Figure 1 is a side elevation of my improved device. Fig. 2 is a plan showing the device operated in one direction in full lines, and operated in opposite directions in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view showing the manner in which the device may be applied and used in practice.

My device comprises a base 10 formed with screw members 11 by which the same may be secured to some supporting part, as, for example, the wagon tongue 12, shown in Fig. 3. At the front end of the base 10 is a vertical tubular standard 13, and the rear of base 10 has secured thereto an upright flange 14 provided with a pair of spaced apertures 15 and 16. The standard 13 has formed thereon a top collar 17 and bottom collar or expanded portion 18.

Rotatably mounted upon the outer portion of tubular member 13, and secured thereto.

parallel with base 10, the rings 19 and 20 being connected by a pair of webs 23 which are secured togetherby screws or rivets 24. The arms 21 and 22 comprise, therefore, a bifurcated bracket having a double bearing on the outside of tubular member 13 and capable of free oscillation about'the same.

Pivotally secured between arms 21 and f 22, by means of a pivot pin or screw 25, is I an osc illatable member 26. The pivot pin 25v extends centrally through said member 26 so that there is a portion 27 thereof below the arms 21 and 22, and a portion 28 above such arm. At the end of the portion 28 is I an extended whip-holding member 29, which may be formed as an open-sided socket, the whip 30 being held thereto by means of a sliding ferrule 31. At the end of the upper portion 28 of oscillating member 26 is formed a nose or right angled, conical projection 32.

A spiral spring 33 has one end thereof seated within the tubular cavity 34 formed within the tubular standard 13. The other end of the spring 33 surrounds the nose 32, and the last coil 35 of said spring is secured through an eye 36 formed on the lower side of upper arm 28. The spring 33 operates to hold the parts inthe position shown in Fig. 1, in which the whip-holding member 29 is held relatively upright and the whip 30 held elevated.

Upon the lower portion of lower arm member 27 is a cross head or bar 37 extending at right angles to each side of the arm 27. Apertures 38 and 39 are formed in the cross bar 37, and also horns 40 and 41 may be provided at the ends of said cross bar.

Cords 42 and 43 pass through the apertures 15 and 16 respectively in the flange member 14, and cross, as shown in Fig. 1, cord 42 being connected with the aperture 39 and horn 41, and cord 43 with the aperture 38 and horn 40 of the cross bar 37.

In operation the cords 42 and 43 will be passed back to a point in convenient proximity to the driver. If it is desired to cause the whip to strike one of the horses the driver will jerk quickly on either cord 42 or 43, according to which side it is proposed to strike. This will have the effect of simultaneously oscillating the bracket arms 21 and 22 about the standard 13 and in oscillating the member 26 upon the transverse pivot 25,

"the result being that the whip will be caused to move rapidly downwardly and either to the right or to the left, according to which cord is pulled, and to strike the right hand or left hand horse as desired.

It will be observed that the whip is held in a position where it is entirely out of the way, where it does not project to either side of the horse, and that the blow is delivered where it should be, across the rump and back of the animal. A single whip and a single device is all that is required to provide means for controlling both horses of team. When the Whip is forced downwardly, that is, when the member 26 is oscillated sov as to force downwardly the upper portion 28 thereof, the spring 33 is, of course, compressed, which will instantly withdraw the whip from the back of the animal and restore it to its elevated position afterthe stroke has been delivered.

I claim: p

1. A whipping device comprising a hollow tubular standard,'a bracket mounted for oscillation-about said standard in a horizontal plane, a whip-holding arm centrally pivoted to said bracket for oscillation in a vertical plane, a spiral spring extending within the tubular standard and connected to the whip-holding arm above its pivot, and a pair of cords connected to the lower portion from difierent angles, either of said cords simultaneously oscillating the bracket about the standard and the whip-holding arm about its pivot, the oscillations of the bracket'being effected in opposite directions by the respective cords.

2. A whipping device comprising a standard, a bracket mounted'for oscillation about said standard in a horizontal plane, a whip holding arm centrally pivoted to said bracket for oscillation in a vertical plane, a crossbar on the end of said arm below its pivot, a pair of guides, and a pair of cords extending through the guides and connected in crossed relation to the ends of the crossbar farthest removed from the guides through which the respective cords pass.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SIGVART KVAM.

Witnesses:

F. A. WHITELEY, H. A. BOWMAN.

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' Washington, D. G.

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